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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Inlaid Dies

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. I spent mine getting to grips with some paperwork and then had a little time for myself in the craftie space.

When I am able to I try to take part in the CAS Mix Up Challenges. I find it easy to add elements onto fussy cards but trying to make CAS ones with the required elements taxes me a bit and I like the challenge!
This month it's 'Inlaid Dies + Stamping +Your Choice'.

I have had this Poppy die for a long time and think it was one of the first I bought. Bright idea to use it with some left over Alco Inked paper and white card.
At this point I think I should make a 'Note to Self' - think about how long it is going to take you to inlay all the fiddly bits before starting!!

I used Raspberry and Red Pepper for the flower heads and Lettuce, Meadow and a teeny bit of Citrus for the stems and base.
Although it took quite a while to piece it all back together (particularly the white bits) I am happy now it's finished! Cut it out using my cross stitch die then popped it back into the original square pice before mounting it onto the base card.
The sentiment was stamped in Certainly Celery and heat embossed and I added a couple of teeny sparklies to finish it off.

Have no plans today excepting to pop over to the Playground to catch up with everyone then make a few more cards! Thanks for stopping by - have a great day whatever you're doing. x

This is stunning, Viv!! I love the alcohol inks for your tulips. Adds such beautiful and bright colours against the white. Great job with inlaying all those little pieces. I'm sure it took you a long time, but it is so worth it. Gorgeous, gorgeous card! Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up! xx

Viv, this is absolutely stunning!! Perfect in every way and so beautifully made. I have that poppies die and take my hat off to you for paper piecing it, a wonderful result although I bet you were almost climbing up the wall doing it! Thanks for coming to play - and I loved all your tour piccies on FB!

Great inlay work on this one, and I love the xstitching on the square die shape too. Bet it was a bit fiddly with those slender flower stems too. Such pretty bright springtime flowers. Bound to cheer up whomever gets to open this pretty card. TFS

Oh, Viv, this was definitely worth all the effort! WOW! Love those flowers and they are so pretty in all that white space! You have certainly got the hang of CAS! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at CAS Mix Up!

This is a gorgeous card Viv and love the inlaid poppies which were definitely worth all the effort, and I love the cross stitched mat and sentiment mat. The alcohol inked pieces for the flowers and stems with the lovely mix of colours looks so pretty too. x

Wow! Yes, a lot of work to inlay that delicate die, but oh-so worth the effort! This is gorgeous,and I'm pretty excited to learn you've used AI's to color those flowers--genius! I think I've got to pull out the AI's and give them another chance. So pretty!

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